One of the fundamental choices you face in every encounter is the choice to approach or avoid.

Do what you love, but be damned sure it's profitable. If you do work you love, but it doesn't generate income, your business will fail. If you do work you hate, but it generates income, your health will fail... and your business along with it. If you can't do what you love and make it profitable, you've either got a hobby or a headache, not a sustainable business. Don't settle for anything less than passion and profit.

Fail your way forward. Recognize that Ready, fire, aim is superior to ready, aim, aim, aim. Straightforward trial and error produces better results than endless vacillating. If you're afraid to make decisions and act on them in the face of ambiguity and uncertainty, get a job. Failure's lessons are essential to success.

Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.

You can move beyond the ego's perspective and see reality from the perspective of a higher consciousness.

Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.

If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.